US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 22 for "Synthetic speech processing" (British, Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,266, issued on April 22, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Synthetic speech processing" was invented by Jaime Lorenzo Trueba (Cambridge, Great Britain), Alejandro Ricardo Mottini d'Oliveira (Seattle), Thomas Renaud Drugman (Carnieres, Belgium) and Sri Vishnu Kumar Karlapati (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech-processing system receives first audio data correspond to a first voice and second audio data corresponding to a second voice. The speech-processing system determines vocal characteristics of the second voice and determines output corresponding to the first audio data and the vocal...